wivenhoe

[big al]

its been a long weekend and what no big W report:( well here is one got there about 9:00am monday with bommie big dyl bommie jnr drove down the track (sailing club ) muddy see where cars have been stuck :ohmy: unloaded canoe yacks set them all up :cheer: ready to go then came the rain waited had a cup of coffee more dark clouds more rain:angry: a break in the rain so pack it all up again and head off home there were a few keen yacks and tinneys out on the water dont know how they went got to fernvale so down to the river more rain:angry: had lunch at a shelter then pushed on home didnt even wet a line:angry: all this comes on top of a saturday night chasing tailor with big dyl out from green & king island bloody windy :woohoo: rough and running aground (bent prop) getting lost for a while wrong side of king at least big dyl caught his first shark 60cm then as the wind and waves were getting stronger we left for home two fishing trips score no fish :laugh: trips like this thats all you can do:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: next time ; bootynblue how did your clubs winter marathon go over the weekend:)

[bootyinblue]

Mate the marathon went off well. We had a good number of boats race on the Saturday on the short course and then even more boats come out for the marathon event on the Sunday.

It rained for about 4 hours steady on Sat 2a - 6a and this made all the bottom section boggy with several vehicles getting stuck. (The good ol' Navara did its stuff with a snatch strap in freeing them). Its good to see how the water was seeping out of the ground in the bottom section where it must sink in at the top and then run subsurface to re emerge again after hitting the water table.

Was going to stay Sunday night there but broke some rigging early on in the race on sunday and had to pull out which gave me a clear 2 hours to pack up and head home early.